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Good Summer Reads
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I am enjoying the book "How Not to Look Old" by Charla Krupp. It's easy to skip around between different chapters on topics such as hair, make-up, clothes, and procedures. There are lots of pictures and a list of the author's "Brilliant Buys" at the end of each chapter.
Is anyone else reading a beauty related book this summer? Or do you have a book that's now on your bookshelf you'd recommend to the BB community? -
I also love the Beauty Bible. It's a great reference book to keep on hand, because for me, as the years go by, new skin and beauty problems crop up, and I can look up the best information on them in this book.
Another book I love is "Hope In A Jar" by Kathy Peiss. She tells the history of the beauty industry in the US, the pioneering businesswomen who started many familiar companies, how products were marketed, and how science led to better and safer products. It is well-researched and illustrated with photographs. It's very readable, and I found it fascinating.
(The name "hope in a bottle" - philosophy didn't invent that phrase.) -
Not exactly beauty related but an excellent read which demonstrates how you can be fooled by marketing is
Blind Spots - Why Smart People Do Dumb Things by Madeleine Van Hecke
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Hrm, I wish someone would write a book called "How to look great and old." Most of the "how not to look old" books should be titled "How to look like an aging trophy wife who hates her husband's secretary." :-P
I mean, some of those "don't look her age" women look flat-out scary. I've seen pictures of Lauren Bacall and Loni Anderson, and I want to look like Bacall!
"Together, stylish, and 43" is what I aim for -- which is quite a different thing from "43 and desperate to look 23."
But it's either "plastic trophy wife" or "pink cashmere sweater with poodle perm" in this country. Sometimes I wish I lived in France, where 50-and-hot is not an oxymoron. -
Janis,
You should pick up a copy of "How Not to Look Old" The idea of the book is not to make you look 20 years younger, but how to look well groomed and modern. Simple things like wearing lighter colored lip stick, and ditching the "mom" jeans. A few simple changes in hair, make up and clothing can make a world of difference, and it doesn't take a $5,000 budget like it does on Not What to Wear. Of course if someone offered me the $5,000 budget i wouldn't turn it down. -
I like to think that none of us are styled (for lack of a better word) badly enough to rate an appearance on What Not To Wear. Don't feel the need to set me straight if that's not true. I prefer to think of you all as confident, pulled-together gals.
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Sorry, PR. I'm told all the time I need to go on WNTW. I'm fat and tend for clothing two or three sizes too big because of this.
Course I'd also tell Stacy and Clinton to shove it. There's no way a twig and a man have the real life experience to dress someone as fat as me properly. LOL Probably be their highest rated show. -
LA LA LA. YOU CAN'T MAKE ME LISTEN. YOU ARE ALL STYLISH AND PULLED TOGETHER.
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Sorry, Purple, but it's not true for me.
In fact, here's me on a daily basis.
Course if you go to my website JamiSings.com you'll see me dressed up. However my MOM picked those clothes out for me.
Yes, I'm so bad at picking out clothing, I still let my mom do it.
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1) Jami, I have to remember to go to your site tonight and listen to you sing. I am mad about good voices.
2) I may try that book if I can get it used, but some of the reviews I read of it do imply that it's not my thing. I don't consider that not getting botulism injected into my face makes me "low maintenance."
Oh, well. We all age, and there is such a thing as aging gracefully. Looking old is one thing -- looking frumpy is another entirely.
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